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Guitar DIY Ideas?

  • 08-12-2008 9:28pm
    #1
    Jammyc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭


    Hiya,

    Ive got a guitar to abuse, Ive already gotten it taken apart, currently in the process of stripping the paint, has anyone got any ideas as to what I could turn it into?
    Just random handy things like?
    Preferably not too difficult or expensive!
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    What guitar is it?


  • #3
    Jammyc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Jammyc


    Sorry yeah should have said, its a strat style bodied electric


  • #4
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Jammyc wrote: »
    Sorry yeah should have said, its a strat style bodied electric

    Well i guess you have to decide if the guitar is worth putting the cash into it? I mean if it's got a poor neck doesn't play particularly great, you can add all the pickups and hardware to it and still end up with a not so great guitar, however if it's something that you particularly enjoy playing, and want to upgrade it then it's probably a good bet.
    Well the obvious things would be pickups, machine heads, electronics etc, What kind of music are you in to? GFS seem to be a great budget buy for pickups , i just picked up a set of lipstick tubes for a strat project of mine.


  • #5
    Zangetsu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Zangetsu


    I'm doing the same thing at the mo, got a mighty might neck, a pickgaurd build from Xavaire and some nice hardware, coming along nicely but Other things have caught my eye so it sits in the corner in several pieces...

    I'll finish it some day!


  • #6
    -=al=-
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭-=al=-


    have a look around town for spare parts on 2nd hand guitars and the likes, sometimes yuo can find neat stuff that could be useful


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  • #7
    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Make a Maltese Cross like Ian Hunter had

    http://guitarhangar.com/vmchk/Museum/Thomas-Maltese-Cross-made-famous-by-Ian-Hunter-of-Mott-the-Hoopl.html


  • #8
    Squirrel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭Squirrel


    I'm stripping a Strat shaped body and I'm gonna get my sister in law to paint it since she's an artist. It'll look good if nothing else. What's the best way of taking the paint off a guitar? And the best way of sealing the new paint that gets put on it?


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